The folks at Altera will showcase their latest embedded solutions at ESC DESIGN West 2012. Attendees visiting Altera's booth #1816 will learn about the company's SoC FPGAs, which integrate a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor into a 28-nm FPGA, and discover how they can get started now developing application software targeting this new class of device using the Altera SoC FPGA Virtual Target.

Demonstrations in Altera's booth include a variety of FPGA-based embedded systems in the areas of video processing, H.264 video compression, music synthesis and image processing with multifunction printers. Altera will also showcase supporting technologies, including its latest embedded tools that simplify the design and development of FPGA-based embedded systems, along with a look into the future with upcoming technologies such as optical FPGA interconnect and OpenCL for FPGAs.

In-booth presentations include a series of discussion topics from "Introduction to Programmable Logic" to the latest on Altera's OpenCL for FPGA program.

Embedded system demonstrations showing FPGAs being used today in applications: Video algorithms in FPGA from System Level Solutions; Low-latency H.264 CODEC from Jointwave LLC; Camera-based music synthesizer from Terasic; High-performance image processing for multifunction printers from HCL Technologies

Sponsored session with micronEducating designers on the potential uses and benefits of FPGAs, Altera is teaming with Micron Technologies in sponsored sessions on improving error resilience in embedded memory systems using 32-bit ECC, an increasingly important aspect in today's embedded systems. The session is titled "Making SoC FPGA- Based Memory Systems More Resilient to Soft Errors Through Detection and Correction" and will take place the following days and times:

Date and time: March 27 at 4:30 p.m. and March 28 at 12:00 p.m. Location: Room K

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